THREE GREEK MARBLE HEADS
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THREE GREEK MARBLE HEADS

CIRCA 4TH-2ND CENTURY B.C.

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THREE GREEK MARBLE HEADS
CIRCA 4TH-2ND CENTURY B.C.
Including a fragmentary female head with center-parted wavy hair; a male head from a relief with short cropped curly hair; and a female head from a relief, her hair pulled back in a chignon
Tallest: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) high (3)
Provenance
Mr. & Mrs. William de Forest Thomson, Boston; gifted to the MFA, Boston, 1918.
Literature
L.D. Caskey, MFA Annual Report, 1918, p. 86 (for the first two).
C.C. Vermeule, AJA 68, 1964, pp. 326-327, pl. 99, fig. 7 (for the third).
M.B. Comstock and C.C. Vermeule, Sculpture in Stone: the Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 1976, nos. 220, 62 and 84.
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